Conference Governance
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee’s roles and responsibilities include:
- Approve and monitor the progress of the conference against the agreed project plan
- Resolve any significant issues associated with the conference
- Provide leadership and assist to attract international sponsors and delegates
Members of the Executive Committee include:
- The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Stephen Yarwood (Chair)
- Adelaide City Council CEO, Peter Smith
- Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure CEO, Rod Hook
- European Cyclists’ Federation President, Manfred Neun
- Velo-city Series Director, Bernhard Ensink
Managing Committee
The Managing Committee’s roles and responsibilities include:
- Select and engage a Professional Conference Organiser to execute the project plan
- Approve the conference project plan and monitor progress against the project plan
- Manage the performance of contracted parties
- Resolve any significant issues associated with the conference
- Provide leadership and assist to attract local, Australia wide and international sponsors and delegates.
Members of the Managing Committee include:
- Adelaide City Council CEO, Peter Smith and Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure CEO, Rod Hook (Florafox.com)
- Conference Directors, Adelaide City Council GM, Sandy Verschoor and Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Executive Director Mark Elford
- Velo-city Series Director, Bernhard Ensink
- Velo-city Series Event Manager
- Velo-city Global Adelaide 2014 Program Director, Margaret Howard
- Bicycle SA CEO, Christian Haag
Organising Committee
The Organising Committee’s role and responsibilities include:
- Develop the project plan for endorsement by the Managing and Executive Committee
- Implement the agreed project plan and monitor progress
- Escalate any issues and variances to the budget or project plan to the Conference Director and/or the Managing Committee for approval.
Members of this Committee include:
- Conference Director, Sandy Verschoor(Chair)
- Project Manager, Kylie Bennetts
- Velo-City Series & Event Manager
- Velo-city Global Adelaide 2014 Program Director, Margaret Howard
- Professional Conference Organiser, MCI Australia.
Program Advisory Committee
The Program Advisory Committee’s role and responsibilities are to contribute ideas, share knowledge and recommend speakers.
Members of this Committee are from a range of different disciplines and organisations across Australia.
Program Committee
The Program Committee’s role and responsibilities are to provide feedback on the preliminary program, including balance, quality and relevance of content to the following topics and questions:
- A balanced program
- Does the program have an appropriate and interesting balance of subject matter?
- Is there adequate gender balance? (please note that the gender balance represented in the draft program has a slightly higher representation of woman than gender balance in total abstracts received)
- Is there adequate representation from continents/countries all over the world?
- A robust program
- Does the scheduling of topics within concurrent sessions offer the diversity of likely delegates a good choice?
- Are the session working titles appealing to delegates?
- Will the concurrent sessions offer delegates a good challenge in selecting their preferred topics?
- Are there any ‘gaps’ in topics across the concurrent sessions and in the conference program that you believe are critically important to have included?
The 12 members of this Committee are nominated by the European Cyclists’ Federation and the Organising Committee and collectively provide international representation of a range of disciplines and organisations.